A NEW report suggests a back-to-basics approach to teaching children reading and writing skills could be the most effective. A scientific study analysing phonics instruction in schools has shown ...

The Education ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with Chris Jolly, the originator of Jolly Phonics to incorporate the teaching method in basic schools across the country. Addressing ...

The government has announced an updated Teaching and Learning Model for all state schools, to be implemented from next year, which focuses on what’s known as “explicit teaching”, with students from ...

The old ”look-say” method of teaching reading is now called ”whole language” and considered by some as superior to phonics. My experience in teaching primary grades a generation ago convinced me that ...

Last Saturday Michael Gove, in his speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, asked how anyone can defend an education system where “more than a fifth of children [leave] primary school without having ...

Teachers will have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a reported government deal with the teachers union. It’s ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. The government has announced an updated Teaching and Learning Model for all state schools, to be ...